Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Brother Industries (U.S.A.), Inc. is the Memphis, Tennessee–based U.S. operating subsidiary of Brother Industries, Ltd., the Japanese office-equipment and sewing-machine maker. It is headquartered at 7,819 N. Brother Blvd. in the Memphis suburb of Bartlett, where Brother operates a roughly 1.5 million-square-foot manufacturing and distribution campus; Dun & Bradstreet lists the entity as founded in 1986 with about 1,200 employees and annual revenue near $229M (dated third-party figures). Its parent, Brother Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6448), reported FY2026 (ended March 2026) revenue of ¥893.5 billion (~US$6B) and roughly 39,000 employees globally. It is distinct from Brother International Corporation, the Bridgewater, NJ–based Americas sales and marketing arm.
Operations. The company manufactures and distributes Brother-branded printers, multifunction devices, fax machines, label printers (P‑touch), and related supplies and accessories, and houses customer service and distribution operations for the U.S. market. Parent Brother also makes sewing machines, industrial sewing equipment, and machine tools.
Litigation posture. Brother Industries (U.S.A.), Inc. is an operating company cast purely as a defendant: the tracked docket shows 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. The suit was filed in the Western District of Tennessee (Memphis Division) — the company's home venue, not a plaintiff-friendly court like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. In Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Brothers Industries (U.S.A.), Inc. (filed April 2022, W.D. Tenn.), Flexiworld — a patent-licensing company (NPE) that previously sued Canon, Epson, and Lexmark — asserted wireless-printing patents covering networked, driverless output and proximity-based printing. Per RPX and PatSnap, the matter closed by consent judgment in early 2023 across coordinated related actions; terms were not disclosed. The case reflects Brother being targeted as a printer OEM rather than asserting patents itself.
Flexiworld sued Brother in the Western District of Tennessee, asserting the '402 patent along with other Flexiworld patents. The case was resolved by consent judgment with prejudice on March 13, 2023, with terms not public.